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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 1621915" data-attributes="member: 31036">Since this question involves family names, I looked in Bock 1994 AMNH:“Struthideidae Mathews, 1924{Zoonomen dates this to Feb. 21, 1923} (Struthidea Gould, 1837) and Corcoracidae Mathews, 1925-27 (Corcorax Lesson, 1830) have priority with respect to Grallinidae Mathews, 1930 (Grallina Vieillot, 1816), however, Grallinidae should be conserved conditionally in preference to  Struthideidae and Corcoracidae for any taxon containing Grallina, Struthidea and Corcorax because it has almost always been used for the family-level taxon containing these three genera. …Struthideidae Mathews 1924 has priority with respect to Coracoracinae Mathews, 1925-27 however Corcoracidae should be conserved conditionally in preference to Struthideidae for any family-level taxon containing Corcorax and Struthidae because this name has generally been used for any family-level taxon containing these two genera….Struthidae can be used for any family-level taxon containing Struthidea but not Corcorax and Grallina."<a href="http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/CORCORACIDAE" target="_blank">http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/CORCORACIDAE</a> .Although Struthideinae Mathews, 1924 (type genus Struthidea Gould, 1837) is senior to Corcoracinae Mathews, 1927 (type genus Corcorax Gould, 1837) as the valid name for this family when both Corcorax Gould and Struthidea Gould are included in it, Corcoracidae is kept in deference to Bock, Bull. AMNH 222(1994)221Does HBW have to give deference to Bock if neither he nor anyone went to the ICZN and got anything passed?  Mr. Peterson always says that HBW is not a taxonomic work.  <a href="http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/830" target="_blank">http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/830</a> .</blockquote>

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